Yangon Chin is a somewhat inaccessible state occupied largely by ethnic Chin’s along the western and northern mountainous areas of Myanmar strategically located along the Indian and Chinese borders of the country. The state is geographically large, but its population is hardly 500,000, and perhaps significantly less given the number of Chin who have fled, …
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Nothing Easy About Organizing Unions in Myanmar
Yangon Not surprisingly, the more people we visit, the more we peel the onion and come closer to understanding the full challenges for workers and their unions in organizing in Burma. Over the first three days of meetings for example when talking to labor sources the union density has fallen from 2% or roughly 250,000 members …
Former Political Prisoners Making Plans for the Future in Myanmar
Yangon Having people go around the room and introduce themselves is a common routine, but having people say their names and then the years they were imprisoned is somehow both sobering and immediately inspirational because just those words from former students, lawyers, professors, and regular workers who were jailed for advocating for democracy speaks volumes …